Films and TV box sets reviewed in under 200 words. Because you really just want to know if it's good.

Month: August 2010

Ellie, 17, goes camping in the bush for a few days with a bunch of spunky mates from her coastal country town of Wirrawee. When they get home, wouldn’t you know it, Australia’s been invaded. (First the World Cup, and now this!) The rest of the film plots their transition from ordinary Western kids into… Read More Tomorrow When the War Began

I’m trying to work out why I liked this film: it does so many things wrong. Gordon Gekko is released from prison and promptly commences a book tour for his Is Greed Good?, warning the world of the impending financial crisis. So has Gordon reformed? Well, his daughter doesn’t think so – and he does,… Read More Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

My route to work on July 7, 2005 would have taken me through Kings Cross and Aldgate East tube stations, but thanks to a 10am start, by the time I arrived in London the bombs had already gone off. So I walked to work. A decade earlier, an IRA bomb threat had stopped me getting… Read More Four Lions

I don’t imagine fans of the book will be too disappointed with this film version, adding its succulent visuals to what is essentially a very internal story of one woman’s midlife crisis and subsequent journey of self-discovery. First to Italy to find food, friendship and self-expression. Then to India for some meditation, bustle and living… Read More Eat Pray Love